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MILFORD, Ohio -- Cicadas coat Tamara Toppen's fence, blanket her front sidewalk and infest her bushes.
They crunch underfoot, litter the ground with their empty shells and scream their mating calls from every nook and cranny. Read on... The Columbus Dispatch : Dogs rejoice, people duck: Cicadas are back.
Loveland High School beats Granville 12-11
LOVELAND, OHIO - A game that began in sweltering, stifling 90-degree heat, ended in a red hot Division II final-four win for the Loveland Tiger Lacrosse team on Thursday. The game had been postponed from Wednesday because of severe weather, but field conditions were excellent for the showdown against visiting, #1 seed, Granville Blue Aces.
Loveland plays University School at on Saturday, June 7. The game is at Dublin Coffman High School at 2 PM. (Directions)
University School advanced into the State Championship game by beating Solon High School 8-6 on Wednesday, and is the #1 seed in Region 1 and 2. Loveland is seeded #2 in the 3 and 4 Region. University School (15-4) is a private independent boys high school in Hunting Valley, north of Shaker Heights, in northern Ohio.
After the victory, Loveland Head Coach Mike Werner gathered his team on the sideline. He said, “This was a little but uglier than we wanted, it was hot, it was miserable. But, hey guys, we're going to State.”
Granville scored two goals, and led Loveland 2-0 after the first quarter, but Loveland went into the locker room at the half only down 1, after scoring 3 goals to Granville's 2 in the second half.
The Tigers stormed out of the locker room with a clear message to the Blue Aces, scoring two quick goals and a total of six for the third quarter, vs. 2 for Granville. Loveland led 9-6 going into the final quarter. Granville proved tough for the Tigers to finish off in a game that seemed assured late in the game of sending the home team to the State Championship. Granville scored 5 more times, taking the game within one point with under three minutes to go.
Werner told his team, “It doesn't get any better than this.” Talking about playing University School in the finals on Saturday, he said, “Think about the Collegiate school we played in Louisville – on steroids.” He said they use a lot of ball control and have a lot of field experience. “We're rated number 2 in the State of Ohio - they're rated number 1. But guys, your A-Game, beats University School.”
After the game, Granville Head Coach, Kurt Hansen said, “It was a very good game. When you get two very good teams together and if you make a mistake, the other team takes advantage of it, and that's exactly what happened. We made a mistake, and 'boom' Loveland took advantage of it. He said he was not talking about one particular mistake, but mistakes throughout the game. “Loveland is good enough, and they have enough experience that when we made mistakes, they took advantage of it.” Hansen said he thought his team took advantage of a few of Loveland's mistakes also, “but apparently they did a better job at that, and that's what it boils down to.”
Speaking about the end of the game Hansen said, Yea, we closed it. These boys never quit, but I've come to expect that from them.”
Loveland's Werner finished his post-game pep talk by saying,“ Guys, great job, enjoy this. I am proud to be part of this team. The second half you turned it on, but we are not done yet; we have one more game.”
First Quarter: Loveland 0, Granville 2: Goals:Davis 1, Downey 1, Assists: Mintos 1
Second Quarter: Loveland 3 Goals: C. Mather 2, Lund 1 Assists: Miller 1, Granville 2: Goals: Wilkins 1, Sewell 1, Assists: Franks-Rogers 1
Third Quarter: Loveland 6, Goals: Gilligan 1, Sechrist 1, J. Werner 3, Slabaugh 1, Assists: Lund 1, M. Dowd 1, Rosborough 1, Sechrist 2. Granville 2, Goals: Sewell 2, Assists: Watson
Fourth Quarter: Loveland 3 Goals: Slabaugh 1, Werner 1, Lund 1, Assists: Werner 1, Miller 1, M. Dowd 1 Granville 5, Goals: Sewell 2, Watson 2, Caravana 1, Assists: Parini 1, Sewell 1
Score 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter Final
Loveland 0 3 6 3 12
Granville 2 2 2 5 11
Goalies:
Loveland Rasmussen 10 saves, Goals allowed: 11
Granville Webb 6 saves, Goals allowed: 12
TUCSON, Ariz. — Oklahoma State second baseman Tom Belza has been named to the 2008 Louisville Slugger Freshmen All-American team, it was announced today by Collegiate Baseball.
Belza moved into the Cowboys’ starting lineup early in the conference season, and the freshman from Loveland, Ohio, proved to be a slick fielder at second base and one of OSU’s most dependable bats. Read on...Link: Belza Named Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American - OrangePower.Com.
Belza was amed to the All-Ohio team as a senior ... hit school-record .556 as a senior at Moeller High School, breaking Ken Griffey Jr.’s school mark.
I was Kodak snap happy and took over 50 pics! Annual Frontiers Day in Milford, Ohio, 1st weekend of June every year.
Mini reunion, of sorts.
The true kick-off of summer Chairs line the streets several hours before the parade We sit in front of Lehr's Meats, of course!
This parade has been going on close to 50 years. The festival goes on for the next 4 days. Another reason that historic Milford Ohio is a special place to raise a family! Read the details...Link: Working Mom in Ohio: Happy Frontiers Day, Milford Ohio!.
15-year-old boy was also swept away by the current, but rescued
SYMMES TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- Crews called off the search Thursday afternoon for an elderly man who fell into the Little Miami River, but his family said they haven't given up hope. Read on... Link: Search Called Off For Elderly Man Who Fell Into River - Cincinnati News Story - WLWT Cincinnati.
SLOTERPARK, AMSTERDAM - Welcome to Loveland Festival 2008. Feel free to take a dip and get in the mood for August 2nd. We will reveal more and more. For the time being, just swim around a little, enjoy the surroundings and please come back often for the latest updates. Click for more info.
LOVELAND, OHIO - The semi-final game of Ohio Division II Lacrosse between Loveland High School and Granville has been postponed to tomorrow, June 5, at 6 PM at the Loveland Middle School Stadium.
This is the story of two women, two college athletes, two softball players, two seniors. One is Western Oregon senior Sara Tucholsky, who had never hit a home run in her career. The other is Central Washington senior Mallory Holtman, her school's career leader in homeruns.
Western Oregon and Central Washington played a doubleheader on April 25 for the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship and a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
Central Washington entered the two game series one game behind League leader Western Oregon. Western Oregon won the first game. In the top of the second inning of the second game, with a 0-0 tie, Sara hit a homerun with 2 on. As she rounded first base, she missed the bag. She turned back to make sure she tagged it, her knee gave out, and she collapsed. She was in obvious agony and could not move let alone resume running the bases. The rules say that her coach would have to replace her at first base with a pinch runner and have the hit recorded as a two-run single instead of a three-run home run. Any assistance (even a touch!) from coaches or trainers while she was an active runner would result in an out. (This was the ruling on the field though it was questioned later.)
This is where Mallory stepped in, literally. She piped up and said to the umpire, "Excuse me, would it be OK if we carried her around and she touched each bag?" The umpire gave permission to do that. Then she and shortstop Liz Wallace lifted Sara off the ground and essentially carried her around the bases, stopping at each one so that Sara's left foot could touch each bag. Western Oregon held on to win the game, 4-2. And Mallory believes that any player in her would have done the same thing.
Her quotes says more about her than her homerun record. "I think that happening on Senior Day, it showed the character of our team," Holtman said. "Because granted I thought of it, but everyone else would have done it. It's something people will talk about for Senior Day. They won't talk about who got hits and what happened and who won; they'll talk about that. And it's kind of a nice way to go out, because it shows what our program is about and the kind of people we have here." For a great write-up on this game from ESPN, click here.
The Character Quality of the Month for May was Wisdom. It is defined as "Making practical applications of truth in daily decisions."
The "I Will..." statements are:
I would maintain that Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace did the Right Thing that day. It is equally gratifying that Mallory does not even "get" that she is special. And make no mistake about it; she is. If you don't believe that, check out the findings of Sharon Stoll, physical education professor at the University of Idaho. She has been studying moral reasoning and moral education in athletic populations for more than 20 years. The number of interviews for her research has exceeded 70,000. Here is what she has found:
Not encouraging. When I share this with my Xavier students, they quote Cuba Gooding to me: "Show me the money!" In other words, the more money involved, the more winning matters, the harder it is to Do the Right Thing.
I used to love sports. When I was in the 9th Grade, I actually thought I had a chance to play in the NBA. Now? Not so much. But, I continue to believe that individual and team sports offer opportunities to test our moral reasoning mettle, as well as our physical skills.
How to counter the decline in moral reasoning? Well, my bet is that Mallory and Liz have (or in the past certainly HAD) coaches as well as parents who gave them great guidance. They followed the first "I will" statement; they listened to their parents and teachers. So, those of us in positions to guide kids do matter. We can model doing the right thing in athletics. Or we can show them the money. How's our moral development?
Bill Croskey, NCSP
Loveland Intermediate/Middle School Psychologist
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always. Mahatma Gandhi Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)
Also Signs Additional Bills Passed in 127th General Assembly
Columbus, Ohio – Governor Ted Strickland today signed House Bill 545, which establishes stricter regulations for short-term lending practices (payday lending) in Ohio.
“The bipartisan legislation signed today takes a major step toward protecting consumers who are already struggling with debt by strictly regulating payday lenders and lowering the maximum interest rate for short-term loans,” Strickland said.
Sponsored by State Representative Chris Widener, HB 545 caps the interest rate for payday loans at 28 percent, reduced from the current annual interest rate of 391 percent.
The bill also sets a $500 borrowing limit for consumers and restricts borrowers to four loans per year. Additionally, the legislation extends loan terms to 31 days from 14 days.
Strickland today also signed several additional bills recently passed by the Ohio legislature:
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